Canon VIXIA HF M52 Pro Reviews

The Canon Vixia HF M52 is a high-quality HD video camcorder first, but its digital still quality is a meager 2MB. The HD video quality when played back on our 52-inch HDTV was superb. The colors were spot on, as was the sharpness and detail. The audio quality was excellent as well. There were noticeable differences in audio when using the Audio Scene feature to select between different shooting conditions. Standard mode seemed to give the best overall setting. Manual audio recording was possible, but very tricky to set up through the nested menus. The larger 1/3-inch HD CMOS Pro sensor provides added benefit to low light performance as well as professional-like depth-of-field control. The zoom control was the best we have seen in a consumer camcorder. What this all boils down to is that it’s one of the better consumer video camcorders you can buy without moving up to prosumer models.